Elon Musk's past statements about self-driving safety could feasibly be deepfakes, Tesla lawyers told court

[Kent Sharkey]

Business Insider[^]:

The lawsuit cites statements from Elon Musk promoting the safety of Tesla's self-driving software

I'm not a lawyer, but that seems to be an interesting defense strategy

and one I may use from now on for everything

[obermd]

The problem with this lawsuit is that Tesla Autopilot and FSD are demonstrably several times safer than the average accident rate in the US. (I'm listing the sources so you can make your own determination.) Tesla's internal report: [Tesla Vehicle Safety Report | Tesla](https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport) In the charts, shorter bars are safer. IIHS's reports on EVs being generally safer: [With more electric vehicles comes more proof of safety](https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/with-more-electric-vehicles-comes-more-proof-of-safety)

[Kent Sharkey]

Safer? Absolutely, but he still regularly and constantly oversells it. It's far from, "A Tesla car next year will probably be 90 percent capable of autopilot." (with variations every year since 2014). If he pushed it as driver assist, there'd be no grounds for this case. As it stands, I'm surprised they didn't push for a class action.

TTFN - Kent

[Nelek]

:thumbsup:

Kent Sharkey wrote:

If he pushed it as driver assist, there'd be no grounds for this case

Exactly.

M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.